Gouverneur Morris

Gouverneur Morris (30 January 1752-30 November 1816) was a US Senator from New York from 3 April 1800 to 3 March 1803, succeeding James Watson and preceding Theodorus Bailey. He was a member of the Federalist Party.

Biography
Gouverneur Morris was born in New York City, New York in 1752, and he came from a wealthy landowning family. After attending Columbia University, he became a lawyer, and he served in the Provincial Congress before serving in the Continental Congress. After losing re-election to Congress, he became Philadelphia's superintendent of finance. He represended Pennsylvania at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and he advocated a strong central government, advancing the idea of being a citizen of a union of states, and writing the Preamble to the US Constitution. Morris then went on to serve as ambassador to France from 1792 to 1794 and as a US Senator for New York from 1800 to 1803. He later chaired the Erie Canal Commission, and he died in 1816.